Hugh is near to starvation. The adventure with the gopher goes from
waking reality to dream on the following night and to waking dream the
next day, revealing how sick Hugh had become.
=10.= The battered gray face leered etc.
Note that the vivid picture of the face of Hugh is secured by
the choice of a few meaningful words, battered, leered, slaver,
anticipating jaws.
=13.= Evolving twilight hovered to a pause
The twilight pause means what?
=18.= Hugh jerked the yarn. It broke.
Note the brevity of the climax, “It broke.”
=19.= Down swooped the night,
How many days of journeying? The dream is a nightmare while the
previous one was relatively peaceful. Why the difference?